Royce Value Trust Short Interest Ratio and Short Volume

Short interest is the volume of Royce Value Trust shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. As of March 31st, investors have sold 53,400 shares of RVT short.

Royce Value Trust saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 53,400 shares, an increase of 761.3% from the previous total of 6,200 shares. Changes in short volume can be used to identify positive and negative investor sentiment. Investors that short sell a stock are betting that its price will decline in the future. An increase in short sale volume suggests bearish (negative) sentiment among investors. A decrease on short sale volume suggests bullish (positive) sentiment.

0.00% of Royce Value Trust's shares are currently sold short. Here is how the short interest of companies in the industry of "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" compare to Royce Value Trust: DNP Select Income Fund Inc. (0.00%), Nuveen Municipal Value Fund, Inc. (0.00%), Adams Diversified Equity Fund, Inc. (0.00%), PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (0.00%), Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. (0.00%), Hercules Capital, Inc. (0.00%), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (0.00%), The Gabelli Equity Trust Inc. (0.00%), Tri-Continental Co. (0.00%), and Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Co. (0.00%).

As of the most recent reporting period, the following stocks had the largest short interest positions: Analog Devices, Inc. ($5.84 billion), Aon plc ($5.47 billion), Charter Communications, Inc. ($5.36 billion), ViacomCBS Inc. ($3.99 billion), Snap Inc. ($3.77 billion), Airbnb, Inc. ($2.90 billion), Peloton Interactive, Inc. ($2.43 billion), Discovery, Inc. ($2.38 billion), The Kroger Co. ($2.28 billion), and Expedia Group, Inc. ($2.18 billion). View all of the most shorted stocks.

Short selling RVT is an investing strategy that aims to generate trading profit from Royce Value Trust as its price is falling. Royce Value Trust's stock is trading up $0.03 today. To short Royce Value Trust stock, an investor borrows shares, sells them and buys the shares back on the public market later to return it to the lender. Short sellers are betting that Royce Value Trust will decline in price. If the stock does drop after selling, the short seller buys it back at a lower price and returns it to the lender. The difference between the sell price and the buy price is the trader's profit.

A short squeeze for Royce Value Trust occurs when it has a large amount of short interest and its stock increases in price. This forces short sellers to cover their short interest positions by buying actual shares of RVT, which in turn drives the price of the stock up even further.

Short interest is typically published by a stock exchange once per month. However, NASDAQ publishes a report for U.S. stocks, including RVT, twice per month. The most recent reporting period available is March, 31 2021.